“I would like You to go to the Rio Grande in person for a few days and manage affairs there according to Your judgment”

I wrote Gen. Sheridan, asking him to take personal control of the situation on the Rio Grande.

WASHINGTON, July 13, 1865-11 a. m.

Major-General SHERIDAN:

I would like You to go to the Rio Grande in person for a few days and manage affairs there according to Your judgment. What You have done seems so well that I desire to change nothing. Do You not think it advisable to relieve Granger from command in Texas? If so, relieve him.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

The Papers of Ulysses S Grant, Vol 15, p 259

O.R., I, xlviii, part 2, p 1075

Grant in Wartime

The Civil War of Ulysses S Grant, from Springfield to Appomattox

“I would like You to go to the Rio Grande in person for a few days and manage affairs there according to Your judgment”